[HN Gopher] Nobody Knows What to Do About NEETs
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Nobody Knows What to Do About NEETs
Author : paulpauper
Score : 13 points
Date : 2021-03-14 22:04 UTC (56 minutes ago)
(HTM) web link (melmagazine.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (melmagazine.com)
| Gys wrote:
| > NEET stands for "Not in Employment, Education or Training."
| benlumen wrote:
| TL:DR; The article is not actually concerned about what we're
| supposed to do about NEETs. It's concerned with what we're
| supposed to do about the fact that NEETs are not concerned with
| gender issues.
|
| Tell me if I misinterpreted that...
| medium_burrito wrote:
| You are correct. It's a pity they didn't focus on our society
| is affecting men and women differently- for example 90% of men
| being excluded from online dating, or many small liberal arts
| colleges being 70+% women, or women unable to find a man to
| have children with (sperm bank stats are super interesting), or
| both sexes having zero expectation they will own a house, or
| retire, ever- and how this is going to shape our society in a
| decade or two.
|
| I posit that the lack of economic future for most people is the
| driver- same as in Japan and Europe.*
|
| * For example, the labor force participation "of the population
| age 25 and over fell for all education groups except those who
| had not completed high school":
| https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2020/educatio...
| clarifier123 wrote:
| Yeah, it's basically "world ends: women most affected"
| benlumen wrote:
| We're getting downvoted for this but I'm not convinced that
| most people read past the first few sentences. The article
| was clearly not really about NEETs. Anyway, yeah - to level
| these sorts of complaints against society's self-described
| losers - seems a bit "punching down" to me.
| probablypower wrote:
| I came away from the article with the same feeling.
|
| The article came across to me as a bystander criticizing a
| hoarder for the colour of their trash. It comes across as "look
| at this mess" rather than something helpful or interesting.
| medium_burrito wrote:
| The combination of aging populations and automation slowly
| reducing the pool of careers even skilled workers have available
| is a vicious feedback loop.
|
| - You can import skilled labor, which if done in sufficient
| quantities drives down wages for the natives - You can import
| unskilled labor, for which there is less work, apart from perhaps
| taking care of old people.
|
| And once there's a Mars colony, I think there's a legit chance
| that a bunch of young skilled people will yeet themselves off
| this planet.
| politelemon wrote:
| An appropriate initialism will be created to represent them in
| media. I'm thinking Young Emigrated Extra Terrestrials.
| secondcoming wrote:
| > If you call yourself a NEET, you spend plenty of time on the
| internet, because the term really doesn't exist offline
|
| Eh, not really. I'm pretty sure the term existed before reddit.
| UK stats going back to 2010 [0]
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| [0] https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-neet
| spiritplumber wrote:
| with more and more automation it'll become more and more of a
| problem. we can be proactive or... ah who am i kidding, we won't
| be.
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